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K. GRANTHAM, Local Editor.
VOLUME L
DUNN, IIARNETI C0.r N. C.f THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1891.
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It is said, laments M'tiixeys Veei-Ii,
that the snake charming industry is on
the decline. It no longer allords an
cjicning to girls who .feel - within them
the promptings of a -lofty ambition to
earn two hundred" dollars a week and
their traveling expenses by dexterously
toying with lethargic pythons, comatose
loa. aud cute, little spotted garter
makes. The public is wearying. of an
xhibitiou which, it has discovered, does
not require a superhuman '.amouut of"
bravery. It wants to see something really
lemarkahle, entirely new, and absolutely
unprecedented such as,-for instance, a
female mouse tamer.
To those persons who believe in the
doctrine of retribution, muses thePhila-Y
delphia iwn, the death from hydro
phobia iu the city of Mexico of Colonel
Miguel Lopez, the betrayer of the Em
peror Maximilian will furnish a text.
Lopez was Maxilian's trusted friend, and
the godfather of his child. For a bribe !
of $3U,0U0 he gave the password to the !
troops of Juarez, so that they could enter '
the city of Queretaro ; and the capture and
.txecutiou of Maximilian followed. The '
wife and children of Lopez left him; he
was hissed on the streets; even beggars
refused his charity ar.d cursed him," and
-for twenty-five years he lived shunned
and despised, dying at last in a paroxysm
of madness. Poor Carlotft and the mis.
guinea .Maximilian have been
avenged.
amply
The difficulty of obtainin
IT ft CllfrlAlAn
nunu.tr of recruits of .the requisite size
has obliged both the French and the
Italian Governments to reduce the mini
mum of their former standard by half an
inch. A similar redaction became neces-
fry in u HC, and
Napoleonic wars, that
aain after the
devoured t toil
est men of France at
lUll
the rate of 35,000
a year. The incessant
wars of the Ho-
man Republic were
nowever, not fol-
lowed bv anv anMlorrrt.,
. ..cairns, ooserve3
the New York Voire, and the luxury and
"temperancof ifce Kmpitlid more-to
hasten the progress of physical degenera
te than the slaughter of a thousand
. battles. Iu FraQCe absinthe alone has,
ln th lt re8Pc probably done more mis
Ciuef than "uupowder.
THE PjOWM.M.
U'hen th tir) jflowman hrt plow-stock
-"'leaven
In the gTOw-iig corn-, as the sun oea down,
And the sky ii rich as a gleanei's shaves
In floorers of crimson and purpla and
brown,
I iri!I wait in the rare and wmitirtjus eves
And watch, as tb loOra of the sunset weaves
Its fabric Of gold over country and town.
And I thick of tks bprings that have cone
and gone . .
Since we saw the shuttle acroea the blue
That wrought in colors of dusk and dawn
"When the musk of the sleeping roses flesr
On the breath the south wind over the
lawn, . c
And the evening shadows werte longer
drawn, ,
And the sun was low and the stars were
. few.
And youth was fair in the lrves"we led
Its memories linger in this latter spring.
And live in the flowers, the books we read, .
Tha kiss she gave me in the grapevine
swing-,
In words and works, to be filled and fed
On the wasted honey and wasted bread,
And sung in the songs she used to sing.
Thoughthelily an i rose have lost their leaves
In the ashes of summers of long ago,
They mine-, through the rare aud jvoadrous
eves,
In the crop of love we used to sow,
As rich as the garlands the sunset weaves
When the tired plowmaJihis labor leaves
In the fragrant corn, ad the sun is low.
.V. A-. Candler, in Atlanta Constitution.
MY MAGAZINE FUND.
BY E. G. BICE.-
Four months before I was graduated
from Welleslej College, some years ago
I was troubled with the perplexing
problem of how to get a very nice gradu
ating dress at a very low cost; fjor.my
father, a village merchant, in Maine,
could ill afford to spend more money
than was absolutely necessary for my
regular expenses.
'I do wish I could think of some way
to earn the money for my dress," I said
one day to my inseparable friend, Madge
Bennett.
4 4 Why don't you write stories for the
papers?" she asked, impulsively.
What papers? said I with surprise
t4Why, any papers all papers -magazines,
quarterlies literary syndicates
anything or anybody," she answered,
springing to her idea in her usual enthu
siastic way. . '
4,But I've no talent for jvriting," I
protested.
4'Yes, deafj you must have,1' she
urged, effusively. "You don't know
how often I've stood enraptured to hear
you go on telling some yarn that I knew"
(kissing rae fervently) "hadn't a word
of truth in it. Oh, I know you could be
a great novelist.' Think of being pointed
out by strangers on the street as the cele
brated Millicent Warner, of Warner's
Falls! What rapture!"
4 'But what could. I write a story
about?" said I, ignoring her little reflec
tion on my veracity at times.
44 Write a love stor Everybody likes !
them, she answered.
44Iiut I've never had a love affair, and
I never can have," I added, mournfully,
"for there isn't a man in my town that
I'd look at for a lover, and you know
I've got to stay at home while the other
girls take their turn away at school. I
know it's predestinated that I shall be
an old maid, but I don't like the out
look," said I, telling a literal truth for
once at least.
"'Tisu't of the least consecp-ience,"
Madge said, encouragingly. "People
neycr need to know about the subjects
they write about. Why, all the books
about the manaeraeft of children are
written by old maids; and do you sup
pose that the people wdjo write about
Lord This and Lady That ever saw a real
lord, even with an opera-glass?"
4 'I don't know," said I with simplic
ity. . .
44Why, of cour-e not," she rattled on;
"half the stories of travel aud adventure
are made up by men who have never
been outside of Coney Island. Indeed,
the less you really kuow about a subject
the better off tou are, you see, because
you're not hampered by facts and your ;
imagination cau have full scope
"I ra afraid I couldn t
succeed that
way, 1 said, mifsingly
"Iniced you could," she still asserted.
"Last year my cousin, Joe Schuyler,
who always has lived in Xew York and
was just graduated at Columbia not
even a country college, like Harvard
took charge of the agricultural depart
ment of a city paper while the regular
editor went to Europe for three months,
and he got aloug finely. lie just hunted
over the rural exchanges and re-wrote
their articles, uing a little different
wording, that was all."
"Didn't he make any blunders?" I
asked.
"No, not in the paper," she hid;
'but he did get into a bit of a scrape,
for a farmer wrote him asking foi some
explicit directions for using a new '
remedy for pip in chickens, and as Joe
is full, of fun he wrote the farmer a 1
private letter sending him a prescription I
,t,ftt nir.tM..
fcUAtJ
Stumpus woodus, regular size.
Hatchetus, one application.
Shake well before using.
This is an absolute and instantaneous cure.
So the. fnrmpr rlrnv off five miles to
the nearest town, to the drug store, had a West Point cadet elope with a
where the clerk assured him he'd been j "Southern heiress, and then both of them
trifled with and that it was all a joke. went to the President to ask pardon, and
That enraged the farmer and he took it he reinstated the cadet in the military
in to the county paper, which happened ' academy, at the same time allowing him
to be published in that town, and the j to board at the hotel with his bride, to
editor made the most of poor Joe's joke ! the envy of the whole corp9.
and all the county stopped their sub- j I told a true story about a French
scriptions in consequence. But Joe i Canadian boy from Three Rivers who
didn't care." "'
'Didn't the city head-editor care?" I
asked.
".Dear me! I don't know. Joe didn't
tell me what he said. But. Millicert, do
try. I know you could write a sweet
love story, or a yachting adventure."
"Why, I never was on a yacht in my
life," I remonstrated.
'But I assure you, dear, it isn't of any
Consequence I f you neyer were. Now, t
Stu 11 nerer divulge my secret, I'll tell you
that I am writing a story myself, and am
doing just what I've advised you to do,
for my story is named "A Night with
Gamblers," and lVe located it on the
Mississippi River 'steamer. It's a thrill
ing tale, and - I've got to a place where
one man is just going to stab another."
."Do read it to me!" I begged; but
Madge would not unity s I would agree
to write one With her-;-Hind so this was
the way my first attempt to write for the
press came about;
I took, her advice. Tnot only wrote a
love story, but I placed the' lovers on a
yacht and set them afloat in Georgian
Bay probably because I kri5w less of
that sheet of water than of most -others.
4 'That's all right," said Madge cheer
fully. "Send it to some inland news
paper. The editor himself won't know
any more about it than you do If he
sends you fifty dollars which I think
would be a fair -price for your story,
you won't care whether the yacht .s ils
bow on or stern first, and if you do hap
pen to get it wrong, folks will think the
boat has got some new kind of a rig on
her,".
So I got a fresh block of paper, wrote
my title, "Love in Georgian Bay," and
began my story. By night I had two
pages written, and couldn't seem to think
of anything to . say next. Madge, too,
still had her gambler "standing with up
lifted hand ready to plunge his dagger,"
but some way she couldn't seem to end
the situation as she wished.
Day;ifter day we wrestled with these
imaginary men. The girl of my tale
was all ready and- willing I . had no
trouble with her; but I wanted my hero
to suffer some severe heart experiences,
L and I found it no easy task to pull him
into and out of his -various difficulties. I
wrote and wiote, and then would tear
up my writing and try again.
JJadge, too, had her trials. Some
days she -shot her gambler and then she
would revive him and stab him, and once
she poisoned him, but his style of death
never seemed-to satisfy her. "It must
not seem 'melQdramatic," she said; "it
must be a-tale indicating great reserved
power."
Each clay we asked each other with our
first waking breath :
"Will he propose to-day?" and "Will
he be dead by night?"
Finally a day came when we each re
solved to end the suspense before night,
and in the recreation hour we took our
writing blocks and wandered off to a
quiot place under the Wellesley trees,
agreeing to make some sort'of. an ending,
before we went back; but the gambler
was still alive, and the willing maid was
still trying to lure on the-reluctant lover,
when the sound of distant thunder came
to our ears and a dark cloud rising in the
west warned us to return to a shelter.
It gave us both a new idea, however,
and we each resolved to work a thunder
storm into our tales.
The result was better than our hopes.
The gambler was made to rush on deck
just as a flash of Jightning struck the
smoke stack of his steamer, and he was
knocked senseless and then robbed by
his fiendish companions and cast over
board, where "he sunk to rise no more."
Madge laid her tale aside with a sigh
4 'It will save sending for an under
taker,"anyhow," she said, "if I drown
him instead of stabbing him; so, on the
whole, I think it's the better way."
As for my couple, they are idly drift
ing on an ebbing tide (I didn't know
then that there was no tide in Georgian
Bay), when dark clouds began to roll
up, and the muttering thunder began to
reverberate among the darkly wooded
hills. They hastily rowed to the shore,
tied their yacht to a tree, and began
climbing a rugged precipice, while the
maid clung in terror to the soul-tossed
lover. It was too suggestive, lie begged
to defend her through all life's pathway,
and in well-feigned surprise she mur
mured her assent just as the first drops
of the bursting storm fell and they
reached a shelter. 4 'It was a happy omen
of fut-ire days," were my closing words.
Alw maiden is readv to don her soli-
taire diamond ring," I declared tri
umphantly to Madge, and we kissed each
other ecstatically.
4 'I knew you could do it, Milly," she
said. "Now, shall you sign your name
! to it?"
"No, indeed," I replied; "I've de
cided to use a man's name, for I think
it would be more in accordance Tvith my
style of composition. I shalV be known
as George Warner."
Madge said she did cot shin.li from
the public gaze. She would use her own
name. ...
We copied our stories are fully . and
sent them each to one of the two best
known magazines, and then began to
watch the daily mail for an answer.
While we continually asserted to' each
other that we hadn't the least idea they
would be accepted,- we each were, in our
4 '
! own minds, as continually planning as
I to how we would spend the fifty dollars
) that we duly expected to receive.
Having heard from neither story at the
end of a fortnight, we concluded that
e u "
waiting to be published be5P f
for. and settled back qnite eo '"PJ
that conviction. Each day I planned a
new way to spend my money
"Since we've leen so successful
in
these articles, let us write some more,
said Madge; and we did.
- Thi time she took a love storv. iand
i came to our own town to earn money for
j his widowed mother, and was crushed in
j a jam of logs, and how kind the rough
j men were to him, aiid how they 6entjiim
. home to die because he longed so to see
his mother once more,
j We wrote these stories rapidly and sent
; them to the two next best magazines of
our choice. Madge said we might just
as well become known at once to the
world of readers as tp -limit our- scope to
the circle reached by any one periodical.
In our imaginations'' we now. nadT each
earned fifty dollars more; -and a&' the pro
ceeds seemed to accumulate "v$ yrd wd
decided to write all
that we 'could find.
time for. '"""'. -" .
It made a serious inroad in my pocket
money to obtain the needed stamps tj
send the articles away " and. also to pro
vide tot their being veturned j and Madge1
suggested. that we save this last expensej
as it waVevidently uncalled for. Then
graduation time came; and we - had to
'lesrVt? each other and the place we loved
so much, v -. - ' -- . ..
We debated whether to write to all
the various editors about our articles,
and notify, them of bur change ef .ad
dress, but finally decided to leave word
w til t Vl o nActmaetfir of "Lr It -1 r avA
await results. I had been sorely tempted to. r
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run in debt for some gradating cxtrava-
gances, being sure I could pay for them
out of my "magazine fund," as I now i
called my expected fifty dollar payments, j
but had bravely resisted the temptation,
as it was contrary-to all my home train- ,
ing, by thinking how happy I would be
later to repay ray father for some of his :
generous outlay on my pleasure.
When I got back to Maine I took our j
village pestmaster into my confidence 1
enough to persuade him to retain any
letters addressed to George Warner, for
delivery to myself alone.
One after another, in the course of
the next six months, those various re- i
jected manuscripts found ;their way back
to Warner's Falls, and time after time
mv "magazine fund" diminished corre
spondingly. Daily I was more and more
thankful that I had not left any debts to
be met from tha't prospective income.
Aformal printed blank, stating with,
courtesy" that my article, was. not avail
able, accompanied each or ") but the one ;
of the Canadian boy, to which the editor
added in a foot-note the words, "If
written with more care this would prob- i
ably be accepted somewhere. Try your
local paper." r- ' -' " - j
Madge wrote ine that all of her pro- '
ductions had beeh-used in due time to
light her grate fies, but she was con- ;
vinced that editors'vere time-servers and !
could not recognizegenius unless a big i
name were signed tain article. '
I now feit very humble, but re-wrote
the stqcy suggested"' and sentit to our
county paper with many misgivings. The
editor wrote me a kind note" saying tbat
he could not afford to pay for contnbu.
tions, but he would be glad to publish
any good short articles sent him on those
terms, and I soon Lad the inexpressible -pleasure
of seeing my story in print, and
of sending n copy of the paper to
Madge, who unselfishly satisfied my long
ing with her ready and effusive, though
truly genuine, sympathy, and praise.
Then I sent my first story, 4 'Love in
Georgian Bay," and another entitled,
"The Bride of Castle Chalheur,"- but the
editor returned them both with a note
saying that they were not adapted to his
paper, and suggesting that I send him
several brief letters about college-girl, life
at Wellesley; and he added; 44 Write
simply about things you know about."
I re-read all my silly, stilted stories,
and, recognizing their utter trashiness,
put them into the kitchen fire, I could
not help letting a tear fall as I thought
of the "magazine fund" with which I
could never surprise my father's emptied
purse. Some time afterward, however,
I wrote Madge a long and true tale.
The unexpected man had come to pass,
even in our town that I had scorned,
and the 6ubjec of my true tale was
4 'Love in Warner's Falls." Frank
Leslie's Illubtruted.
How Caviare is Made.
The AlUgemeine Sport Zeitung, in an
article on caviare, say: 4 4 This delicacy
has only become generally known in the
last sixty or eighty years, but during
that time it has acquired a distinguished
place in the estimation of every gourmet.
Every one is aware that caviare is the
salted roe of the sturgeon, a fish which is
caught in great numbers -off the south
coast of Russia. The large grained cavi
are, made from the roe of the largest
species of that fi3h, is considered the
best.
' Some of the sturgeons weigh as much
as 3,000 pounds, measure from eighteen
to twenty-seven feet in length and yield
a roe weighing 800 pounds. The fish
should be caught some months before
spawning time, while the roe is hard and
light gray in color. As it gets softer
and darker it becomes less and less suit
able for preparing caviare; and when it
is quite ripe, it is completely useless for
the purpose. The process is a simple
one. The roes, cut into large pieces, are
put into a horse -hair or metal sieve, the
coarseness of which is regulated by the
coarseness of the roe, which is then
rubbed carefully through, so that it falls
out as uninjured as possible, while the
skin attached to it remains in the sieve.
44 The finer sort of caviare is rubbed
into an empty dish; it is then strewn
with dry, finely powdered salt; the whole
mass is then well stirred with a wooden,
fork and immediately put up in little
wooden barrels, ready for export. The
inferior sorts are rubbed, through the
sieve into strong brine, where they are
allowed to remain untouched until thor
oughly salted through; the Drinc is
then pressed out and the caviare packed
tightly in cases. The fresher and more
lightly salted, caviare is the " better. In
1826 caviare to the worth of $103,000.
was exported from the Caspian sea ; since
then the "amount anirtially exported, and
especially its value (for the price is now
much higher than jt used, to be), have
greatly increased.
Bifr?rest Fresh Water Fish.
The biggest of fresh water fishes, the
"arapaima' of the Amazon, in South
America, which grews to six feet in
length, has teeth on his tongue, so that
the latter resembles the file and is used
as such. Some kinds of trout also have
the same peculiarity. Fishes that swal
low their prey entire have their teeth so
supported on flexible bases as to bend
backwardbut not forward, in order that
their victims shall not escape after they
baye been 6eized. Botion Cultivator,
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE,
f- . - -
6T0RX2S THAT ABE TOLD BY THE
jeTJWSY MEN OF THS PBES3
A Deceptive Glow Two Uses of the
' Halter An Authority on Blue A
' t Candid Confession, Etc.
I fancied-1 saw by the light of her eye3,
" Ar together we sat id the gloom.
The love that should live till the firmament
dies
And effulgently lustre its tomb.
But eyelight's not gasligat, deceptive its
glbw;
I never shall trust it again.
For the "Yes" I detected turned out to be
"No."
And I've taken to glassesinca then.
New York Heraldt
A HEW WAY OK PCTTISO IT.
r 1-" Why are you always kicking
-kOrQ .larv I hava rT n OT" a rl m 1 rora f 1 .
because I have other admirers?
Gorge-"Oh, if you want to make a
syndicate of yourself I don't object..
New York Sun.
woman's happy manner.
Miss Oldemaide to Miss Youngone
after a discussion-' 4 What is the differ
ence between us, anyhow?"
Miss Y. pleasantly "A difference of
time, mostly." Washington Star.
A PASTURE ECHO
Texas Steer44! am
Chicago next week,"
going
down to
Texas Cow 4 'Be sure' and bring me
back a faithful report of how those city
cows are dressed." Buffalo Express.
v
FIXING THE BLAME. .
"Don't b'lame me," he cried, widly,
"if you die a spinster."
"No, Mr. 'Budd,"r she answered,
sweetly, 4 'but I am sure, some day your
future wife will." frcw'-York Herald.
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' ONE OF TE UNFORT ON ATE6 .-V
Brotherton "31arriage is a failure?"
; Benedict (in surprise) "Why, I
didnt'know you had ever been
ad ever been mar -
Eiven't I failed.'
riedl"
Brotherton 4 'I haven'
Pack.
BOUND TOGETHER.
Primus 4 You and Jacksort are al:
ways together. Some strong bond of
union between you, eh?"
Secundus 4 4 Yes. He is too obtuse
to take a hint, and I am too gentlemanly
to insult him.'' Jude. - ,-'
' TWO USEr"6p THE 'hATER.
Tenderfoot Oybo has .just purchad a
horse) '"Is it the custom .hero.. in the
West ib'thfow fn a halter when a man
takes a horse?"
Old Resident 44 Well, it depends on
how he takes him." Life.
THEY AI.Ii DO THAT.
Mrer Brook "My husband keeps ac
count of every drink he takes."
Mrs. Batiks 44 Are. you sure?"
Mrs. Brook "Oh, yes; the dear fel
low says he never gets one that he
doesn't put it down !" Puck.
AN AUTHORITY ON BLUE.
Miss Brownstone 4 'Do you ever feel
blue?"
Miss Backbay "How absurd! We
do not become cognizant .of colors
through sense of touch. I have fre
quently seen blueness." Puck.
IT MUST HAVE BEEN SHE.
lhe Sjatished liirl 44 We are never
going to quarrel after we are married,
Jack and 1."
tThe Worldly Wise Matron "Which
one has agreedi Jet the other have his
own way j$rtHe; time?" sMunses
Weekly. , :3-.r
A HEARTLESS MOTHER-IN-LAW.
Mrs. Van . Milfion-rr4iBut, Mr. Mari
gold, if you marry my daughter, how
do you and she' propose to live without
money?"
Jack Marigold "Do you mean to say
that you would allow your son-in-law to
starve. Munsey s Weekly.
AN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIR.
"There's Prince Spaghetti still bid
ding adieu to his fiancee. 'By the way,
isn't their wedding to be a fortnight
earlier than was announced ?
"Yes. - The Board of Immigration
decided he must be returned by the ves
sel that brought him." Life.
A CANDID k CONFESSION.
He 4 'Life with me has been a fail
ure
She "You must-have had and wasted
some opportunity."
He "No; I have spent half my life
raising whiskers to conceal my youth,
and the other half dyeing them to con
eeal my age." Munsey' s Weekly.
niGHLY CNNATURAL. .
Walker 4 'I had a most unnatural
dream last night. Fad man. I dreamt
Bink borrowed f 5 of me for a week."
Fadman 4 Unnatural ! Why, that's
Binks all over!"
Walker "Yes, but I went' on dream
ins. and I dreamt that Binks paid it
back to me at the end of the week."
Armriean Grocer.
AND HE GOT AWAY.
Fettman "ine age ot miracles is
past." . I .
Van Leer "I don't know about that.
I encountered a deaf and dumb beggar
to-day and "
Pertman "And he spoke. That's
old!"
Van Leer "No,sir; he couldnrspeakf
That's new." Xew York Herald.
AN UNDERCUT.
Jenny (at the window) 4 'There go
Clara and Tenie. I don't like those
girls."
Kitty 4 'But you mmt learn to like,
them, dear, now that you are engaged
to Tom."
Je'nn " What has that to do with n r
liking or disliking them?"
Kitty "They have both agreed to Uj
sisters to him." Puck. '
SALTER WITH A P.
Teacher 44 Dicky Ricketts, can you
spell psalter?"
Dicky (beaming) "Yes, sir. P-s-a-1-e-T.
Teacher "Good. What is the mean
ing of the word, Dicky?"
Dicky hangs his head and a little chub
at the foot of the class holds up his hand
and shouts, 4 'More salt, sir I baiter 'n
twas first oft" Puck.
A CRUEL CRITICISM.
A A Austin man ktjtriA in tTift Utrerw
slable business, last week, and the first f
thing he did was to have a sign painted
representing himself holding a mule by
the bridle.
4 'Is that a good likeness of mei" he
asked of an admiring friend.
14 Yes, it is a perfect picture of you;
but who is that fellow holding you bv
the bridle?" Texas Sif tings.
INGRATITUDE.
Mr. Gotrox 4 4 What are you
doing
Come
out there in the chill night air?
into the house.
Gladys--44! was just admiring
the
moon. papa.
Mr. Gotrox "What "business have
you admiring the moon when there are so
many things in the house that I have
bought expressly for you to admire?
Anybody can admire the moon." Chi
cago Tribune.
IT DID NOT FOLLOW.
The tramp looked at the breakfast the
woman in the kitchen had promised him
on certain conditions, then looked at the
woodpile in the back- yard, "and was
silent.
44You will find the saw in Jhe shed,"
she suggested. '
"Madam," he replied, pulling up his
coat collar, with an air -of offended dig
nitv and backing off, 4 'I have not said
y thing, but it does not folic
'l5 ' -X
follow that' 1
ft
FILIAL LOYALTY. -
HidoMherW
just been reading to
him Swojry'of a self-sacrificing son who
gavehphi9 life faais mother.
4 'luamma, " - anjihis arms went round
Her neck, "I wisff-j.as big now a big
man." ' ti'-
"And whyj-ferljert?' she asked,
ready for some-ad boyish offering on
the altar of maternal loyev -
"Because, if I was,ancl nurse attempted
to wash me, I'd give her such a whack
in the neck she wouldn't raise.her head
for a week." Philadelphia Titiu.
NOT TO BE BLUFFED.
Railroad official (breaking the news
gently to wife of New York drummer)
"Ahem! Madam, be calm. Your
husband has met with a slight that is
to say, one of 'the drive-wheels of a pas
senger locomotive struck him on the
check and --"
Wife- 4 4 Well, - sirjou needn't come
around here trying to collect damages.
You won't get a cent from me. If your
company can't keep its - property out of
danger, it'll have to take the conse
quences. You should have your engines
insured." Mumey"s Weekly. ; j "
TOO SUGGESTIVE. .
"You've got a fellow in. there that
wont wait on me again, I think, said an
irate customer as he emerged from the
dining-room and slapped his check down
before the hotel clerk." .
"What's the trouble, sir?" asked the
clerk.. - .-. 1
"I'm not 8tmgy,..'ion'tinued' the
customer, "and don'tigftirid giving tips;
but when a waiter .hangs ground when a
fellow is nearly through his dinner and
whistles 4Do Not:F"orget "Me lT think it is
about time something ;was done."
The offer of a five-cent cigar seemed
to wonderfully pacify the enraged cus
tomer. Chichgd Kevcs: j
ESTHETIC, BUT RESIGNED.
"I have nothing in the shape of old
clothes to give you," said the West Side
lady, "except this necktie."
The dilapidated tourist took it in his
hand, and inspected it critically.
"It doesn't harmonize with the waist
coat I got' at the house across the way,"
he said, as a shade of ineffable sadness
crossed his face, "and prdbably will not
look well with the pair of unmention
ables 1 expect to get at the house 6n the
corner; but there are some walks in life
in which it is .impracticable for one to
indulge in the hope of realizing one's
ideal, and it is one of the the unvarying
rules of my life to submit with becoming
cheerfulness to the inevitable. I
the honor, madam, to wish you a
afternoon."
have
good
With a profound bow. and a heavy
sigh he rolled up the necktie, thrust it
into one of the hind pockets of what had
once been a frock coat, and went sadly
away toward the house on the corner.
Chicago Tribune.
The Earth's Interior.
Professor J. C. White, State Geologist
of West Virginia, has become very much
interested in watching the progress of an
eight-inch well near Wheeling, which
has, after one month's boring, reached
the phenomenal depth of 4100 feet. The
well has passed through both oil and
gjasj several thick: veins of coal, gold
bearing quartz, iron and various other
minerals. After the well has reached
one mile depth the Government has
agreed to take hold of it and bore as far
as possible. The temperature and mag
netic conditions will be observed and by :
means of an' ios'trmnent constructed for
the purpose"-a complete record of the
drilling and ail discoveries made will
be kept. This record will be placed in
the geological survey's exhibit at the
World's Fair, and afterward preserved
at Washington. Professcr White and
the Government officers say this will be
one ot the most novel and important ex
hibits at the fair, and wili attract the
attention of the scientists of the world,
Picayune.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Excellent wool has been made
-
from
the fibre of the fir tree by means of elec
tricity. ; " .;' ' i
In Europe steel -tired wheels for rail-
road cars are used more generally than r
in the United Staies.
The great majority of cases of deaf
ness are hereditary and due to the
too ciose consanguinity of the parents.
The maximum power of an electro
magnet is proportional to the least
sectional area of the entire magnetic cir
cuits. 1
With an electro-magnet mechanical a
action a? produced t :a distance under
control by the agency of 1 electric cur- ,J
' rents. -
; The magneto-motive force equals the
' product of the number of spirats and the
number of amperes of current multiplied
by 1257.
A comparatively small dynamo may
be arranged to -light a greater- number
' of lamps by the use of an accumulator
than can be obtained from the machine
direct. Professor Elihu Thompson wears a
unique watch chain, the links of which
: are welded by electricity. In part of
the chain 'links of gold and platinum .
alternate. Other links are made of sec-
j tion3 of .these metals. '
Asphalt paint is rapidly coming , into
favor -for ironwork. Its' oils are not
volatile, as is the case of the various .
coal-tar products, and it is this per
manent character of the material that is
the secret of its. value. - f-
The works of watches arc now plated
with palladium, which is a whiter,
j lighter and more '"' fusible' "metal than
. platinum.. About dae-seventcenth of
1 a grain of palladium .will, by. electrical '
' deposition, coat the works of an ordinary
watch." ' v" -
In a vestibule car recently invented,
instead of the iolding-doors .and" the-'
' tisual iron gates that are so likely to im
prison passengers ia.'case of an accident, - -there
are doors .that slide" into the car,f;
and which leave - the platform unob- "'-
" structed. ' - ' ' ' '
The thickness of ordinary oid leaf is '
about one two-hundred thousandths ' of :
an inch. Accordingly, one --ounce of -i
gold can be beaten out 'nntillt. cover
I 100 square feet. It cau be " beaten out '
. still thinner, but the process Js not com
j mercially practicable. '
.j : Neither the-submerged chain system
' nor the endle" rope system of canal-.
I boat haulage has proved satisfactory in'
Germany, so that . experiments are now '
being made in the use of heavy towing
cars drawn by locbmolives similar to
those used in mines. . '
A most singular relic was exhibited at
a -meeting at Calcutta of the Asiatic So-
; ciety of Bengal, consisting of a piece of
cable, the rubber covering of which had
been pierced by a blade of. grass. The
! piercing was so complete, and the con-
! tact with the copper core so perfect,
that the efficiency of the cable1, was dje
i stroyed. '
A great event in the annals of Indian
1 telegraphy was the corapletiou recently
: of the ne(w copper wire between Calcutta
snd Bombay, along the line, of the Ben
gal -Nag pore railway. The total length .
of the circuit is nearly 1300 miles,' and
the Indian Department can now boast
that it works the longest aerial circuit in
the world.
Vegetation iu the Alps recedes front
year to year. Alpine roses were at one
time found at an altitude of" 7000 feet;
now they are seldom' found higher than
6500 fc2t, and are stunned at that. Var
ious species of small fruit which used to "
be gathered at 7500 feet above the level
now are rarely found beyond two-thirds.
that height..
Russian scientists arc about going to
Northern Africa to make a study of the
methods employed by the natives in re
sisting the inroads of quicksands. . This
inquiry is the result of ineffectual efforts
on the part of Russian engineers to
counteract the eUccLof quicksands in.
tians-Caspian seotions, where thcusanda
of acres of the best -arable soil are an
nually used up.
. Something About Siberia.
Since the building of the trans-Siberian
railroad wat resolved upon, and Siberia
has attracted general notice, the world
has become interested in the origin and
meaning of the word Siberia. V. 31.
Florinsky, in a paper published at the
University of Tomsk, holds . that the
word is of Slavic derivation. It occurs
for the first time in the writings of tho
Persian historian, Rashid-Eddina (1217-
f 1318), as the name of what is now called
western Siberia, for in connection with
it the historian speaks about the River
j. Irtysh and the steppes of
Kirghejte and
; the Bashkirs. The Rassians have known
I the country since .the latter part of the
fifteenth century, and official mention of
the "Siberian land" is made in docu
ments dated in 1554 and 1556. The
word is supposed to have originated with
a tribe of Huns which was known by the
name of Sabirs or Sebirs, and first Jived
in .the Ural Mountains and subsequently
settled down in the regions of the Don
and the Volga. The city of Sivar, which
existed in Bulgaria in the tenth century,
was a monument of the wanderings of
this tribe. The Sabirs were also men
tioned among the Slavonian tribe? on the
Volga enumerated by Jespb, the King of
the Khozars. Now, taking these ac
counts into consideration, it appears, that
the Huns were of Slavic origin, and that
the name of Si bars was atsumed by or
applied to that tribe of the Huns which,
has wandered fronV4be north (Sever) into
the southeastern regions. Another
scholar, - M. Potanin, in Russkoye
Obozrenie, maintains that the origin of
the word Babir is derived from the
Mongolian. He shows that a certain
mountain named Sybyr, or Sumbyr (per
haps the . same ' as the Mount Burner of
the Indian legends), Is variously and re
peatedly mentioned in the folk lore of
the Mongolians at the extreme southern
borders of Siberia. Eoton TrahscrifU